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DESCRIPTION:Grain of Sand (Granito de Arena, 2005) is a new documentary about the 
 grassroots struggle of teachers and parents in Mexico to resist the 
 privatization of the nation's public school system, which has accelerated 
 since the 1993 NAFTA treaty made education a so-called "tradable service".  
 	Under pressure from the World Bank, IMF, U.S. government, and 
 multinational corporations, Mexican President (and former Coca-Cola 
 executive) Vicente Fox has stepped up efforts to dismantle the country's 
 public schools and replace the teachers, who have traditionally defended 
 the rights of Mexico's poor, disenfranchised, and indigenous citizens.  
 Grain of Sand also documents the historic role that teachers have played in 
 Mexican politics, including the struggle against their own corrupt and 
 co-opted national union, which has  used intimidation and violence to 
 undermine the teachers' efforts to preserve their classrooms, jobs, and 
 autonomy -- as well as Mexican democracy.  	 The film is in English and 
 Spanish (with bilingual subtitles), and runs approximately 60 minutes. It 
 was written and directed by acclaimed Seattle filmmaker Jill Freidberg, who 
 also produced the award-winning documentary This Is What Democracy Looks 
 Like, about the historic 1999 anti-globalization protests against the WTO 
 in Seattle.  	Following the screening, a panel of speakers will discuss the 
 connection between the privatization of schools in Mexico and similar 
 trends in the U.S., and answer questions from the audience.  Tickets are 
 $5-$10 and go on sale at the theater 30 minutes before the screening. 
 Proceeds from the event go to support the 2006 CounterCorp Anti-Corporate 
 Film Festival in October. For more information about the screening or the 
 festival, visit http://www.countercorp.org.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/23/85483.php
SUMMARY:CounterCorp Film Festival benefit screening: "Grain of Sand"
LOCATION:Brava Theater\n2781 24th Street (@ York)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/23/85483.php
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